I agree with Phill on this, I teach children in Optimists, at my club we have around 50 kids sailing them on a Monday night, my older children 5,8 and 10, all sail optimists. So selfishly I want the F12 to be a boat for them. I get the feeling that Wouter also wants the boat to be for himself!

i know when the concept was first talked about on the main forum a number of people expressed an interest in this concept for younger children.

It should be possible to have an f12 for 7-12 year old and one for 12+ by having different rigs.

Ultimately I believe the hulls should be rotomoulded. Sorry to mention the plastic word on this forum.

Have you seen the Open Bic? I bet that this is the future of Kids monohull sailing. They start off with an Optimist rig on this boat and then add the Bic rig for more performance. Can't we do this with the Kids F12.

http://www.openbic.com/



Gareth